Farha Hanif

Specialities
Audiology
Languages
English, Hindi, Urdu, Malayalam

Core competencies

  • Newborn hearing screening
  • Paediatric hearing assessment including conditioned play audiometry
  • Adult and geriatric hearing assessment
  • Monitoring hearing of patients with noise exposure and undergoing chemotherapy
  • Otoacoustic Emission (OAE): transient and distortion product for diagnosis of cochlear function and auditory neuropathy
  • Auditory evoked potentials: auditory brainstem response (ABR) under oral sedation and general anaesthesia
  • Tinnitus assessment and counselling
  • Vestibular (balance and dizziness) assessment and management
  • Assessment and management of BPPV
  • Video nystagmography (VNG)
  • Video head impulse test (vHIT)
  • Vestibular evoked myogenic potential (VEMP)
  • Caloric testing (air and water)
  • Vestibular rehabilitation therapy (VRT)   

Profile

Nationality
Indian
Summary
Farha Hanif is an audiologist with 10 years of experience in Dubai, India and the UK in the field of Audiology including diagnostic audiology and hearing assessment across all ages (newborn to geriatric), monitoring hearing of patients with noise exposure and undergoing chemotherapy, vestibular (dizziness) assessment and management, tinnitus assessment and counselling.

She completed her undergraduate degree from the University of Mysore, India and postgraduate degree from the University of Southampton, UK. She then obtained her Professional Diploma in Advanced Vestibular Sciences from the University of Sharjah, UAE.

She is a member of the Rehabilitation Council of India, Indian Speech and Hearing Association

Qualification

MSc Audiology, Professional Diploma in Advanced Vestibular Sciences

Contact

Mediclinic City Hospital

Dubai, UAE
Dubai Healthcare City
04 4359900

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